The 3rd Screenplay Research Conference, organized by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 9 – 11, 2010. Panel Presentation: “Less is More: In Praise of the Minimal Screenplay.”

Re–thinking the Screenplay Conference, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland, September 2009. Panel Presentation: “The Collaboration between screenwriter Jon Raymond and director Kelley Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy.”

Re–thinking the Screenplay Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, September 2008. Keynote Presentation: “The Question of Screenplay in American Independent Cinema.”

Selected Film Festivals, Exhibitions, and Awards

“The Limits of Photography,” January 21–March 25, 2012), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, curated by Rod Slemmons. Screening of Print Generation; Sky Blue Water Light Sign shown as a video installation as part of the exhibition.

Museum of the Moving Image, New York City. Sky Blue Water Light Sign screened as part of “The Cross Revolves at Sunset: Restored Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archive” (part of Avant–garde Masters), January 23, 2011.

William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO. Highway Landscape shown as a looped installation piece in “Ab/Fig,” a group show curated by Wendy Cooper, November 19, 2010–January 15, 2011. Other artists in the show included Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Ellen Gallagher, and Barnaby Furnas.

UCLA Film and Television Archive in conjunction with Los Angeles Filmforum. Sky Blue Water Light Sign screened as part of program curated by Mark Toscano, August 28, 2010.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art (April 15–June 8, 2008), Brunswick, Maine. Sky Blue Water Light Sign screened as part of a special exhibition on “Landscape” in the Media Gallery. Curated by Alison Ferris.

Vassar Experimental Film Festival (February 29, 2008), Poughkeepsie, New York. Featured speaker at the festival, which included screenings of Highway Landscape and Science Fiction.

WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Sky Blue Water Light Sign screened as part of a film exhibition about “water.” Curated by David Gatten.

Virginia Film Festival (October 24–27, 2002). Sky Blue Water Light Sign screened as part of festival.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Sky Blue Water Light Sign screened in “The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950–2000,” as part of larger exhibition entitled “The American Century (Part 2): Art & Culture: 1950–2000.” December 1999–February 2000.

South Korean Experimental Film Exhibition (December 6–9, 1994). Print Generation screened as part of the first major exhibition of experimental films in South Korea. Two screenings of the film were organized by the New Image Group at the University of Seoul. A small catalog accompanied the exhibition.

American Independent Films Abroad Program, Berlin Film Market, Germany (February 1994). Horicon screened as part of international market (2 screenings).

The Rivertown International Film Festival (1994), Minneapolis, MN. Attended festival to screen and discuss Horicon.

Film Reviews & Citations

MacDonald, Scott. The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. Extended discussion of Sky Blue Water Light Sign, Print Generation, and Horicon.

Cook, David A. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam 1970 – 1979. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

MacDonald, Scott. “Ten (Alternative) Films and Videos on American Nature.” In Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 6.1, Winter 1999, 1–14. Two films, Sky Blue Water Light Sign and In Progress, are discussed in this article.

MacDonald, Scott. “The Garden in the Machine: Two American Avant-Garde Films and the Nineteenth-Century Visual Arts,” in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Vol. 22, edited by Jack Salzman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Lengthy discussion of Sky Blue Water Light Sign, pages 239–262.